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Re: 1 Year of Keto Food Pics | Far East Keto

Jon Yongfook — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 03:29:00 -0000

That’s a really tricky one, as you can see I eat a lot of eggs 😅 I’m not sure what I would substitute eggs for since not much else has quite the same macronutrient profile in such a cheap, convenient package. I might try using silken tofu, but bear in mind that has more carbs than eggs.

Re: Indonesian furniture ecommerce site Fabelio bags seed funding led by 500 Startups

Jon Yongfook — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 21:15:50 -0000

most of the new furniture ecommerce startups I've seen get around the warehousing aspect by either building or buying everything to order. Lead time of 4 to 7 weeks. Great for the startup, sucks for the consumer.

With full vertical integration I'm sure one of these guys will bubble up to become "the next IKEA" and that's a compelling enough proposition for investors to keep pumping in $500k bets.

Re: Intellihelper Blog | Intellihelper

Jon Yongfook — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:49:15 -0000

not really similar at all - intercom focuses on chat and sending users personalized messages based on their lifecycle. Intellihelper does pre-recorded, animated tutorials. It's a very different focus.

Re: 7 Terrific Time Saving Social Media Automation Tools that you Have to Use!

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 06:54:14 -0000

Great list! Might I also suggest:

http://beatrixapp.com - social media virtual assistant

Disclaimer: I'm the founder! :) cheers

Re: Social Media is Made of People!

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:53:57 -0000

thanks Hazza! will check out his post now

Re: Beatrix has been banned from Facebook - here's what's happening

Jon Yongfook — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:56:31 -0000

the two events are unrelated. this banning happened 3 months ago - and was then resolved almost immediately since it was a false-positive (in other words, we were not supposed to be banned).

you are referring to our facebook page name change, which happened 2 weeks ago. And besides, I don't see why facebook would look negatively upon calling for your community to suggest an edit: that's exactly what the feature is there for.

Re: Help Us Change Our Facebook Page Name

Jon Yongfook — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:52:48 -0000

yes :)

Re: 7 Reasons NOT to use Hootsuite

Jon Yongfook — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 21:30:40 -0000

I'll just throw our hat in the ring here!

http://beatrixapp.com is another alternative to Hootsuite - particularly if you're interested in getting help with social media content creation. That's what our app focuses on.

Cheers!

Re: Help Us Change Our Facebook Page Name

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 26 May 2014 01:15:43 -0000

I know some folks in the developer relations team but this is a different area I think. It's definitely easier "if you know the right people", but if you don't, the above method is our only option!

Re: Beatrix Review Update: A content creation tool repositioned

Jon Yongfook — Sun, 25 May 2014 04:46:53 -0000

Jason - thanks for noticing our repositioning! we are much happier with this direction and are now committed to building the best tool for social media content creation, but most importantly one that works *with* you, the social media manager.

Our job from here on out is to offer the best content suggestions (we now do links, text and image suggestions!), but also make it fast and easy to create original content. And most importantly never post things on "autopilot". We're now more like an awesome co-pilot :)

We really appreciate your opinions on your blog over the last few months!

Re: Beatrix has been banned from Facebook - here's what's happening

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 03:25:09 -0000

Beatrix posts as you. Just like the other services do.

I don't think you can mark your own content as spam but you can certainly get someone else to (or have two facebook accounts). Anyway, without granular data on who is clicking the spam report links all we can do is speculate. At this point it's not important to us who did it or why, just that measures have been taken so it won't happen again.

Re: Beatrix has been banned from Facebook - here's what's happening

Jon Yongfook — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:24:09 -0000

At the time of writing the blog post I thought that might be a bit heavy-handed but having had time to think about it now, it's probably the safer approach. I'll implement a blacklist for known disposable-email services.

Re: Don't Hand Your Social Media Feeds Over to the Robots: Associations Now

Jon Yongfook — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:15:27 -0000

A lot of negative sentiment here!

Did you guys actually try the app? This is not a "set and forget" tool. It's designed to be used by a human, to make that human being's job easier. That's why it's called an "assistant" :)

Think of Beatrix as an awesome curation tool - but ultimately you're in control. Try it out, it's free for 14 days!

Disclosure: I created Beatrix!

Re: 4-Hour Apps Series: iPhone App Marketing (part 8 of 8)

Jon Yongfook — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:24:07 -0000

absolutely agree with "sell a story" - and for courting the press you can use:

http://pitchpigeon.com

It's a competitively-priced service that submits your app to over 200 different tech blogs for review.

Don't try to fake your download numbers - that's not a long term solution. If you have a good app, you'll get a huge boost simply by being discovered by journalists and bloggers; that's what Pitchpigeon can help you with! Hands down the best way to promote your app is to be written about.

Now, you can't engineer this nor fake it, but you can certainly give yourself a better chance of being reviewed by working with review brokers and PR companies with publisher connections.

Pitchpigeon http://pitchpigeon.com

Re: Disney acquires gaming engine startup to build HTML5 games outside of App stores

Jon Yongfook — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:04:18 -0000

HTML5 massively-multiplayer game / twitter client! :) http://littlecosm.com

Re: How TheFacebook Used To Woo Advertisers Back In The Early Days

Jon Yongfook — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:51:53 -0000

drop the "the"

Re: Twitter Kills the API Whitelist: What it Means for Developers & Innovation

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:07:35 -0000

Just thought I'd put my 2c in as a developer with some experience with the Twitter API.

All this affects is anonymous API usage. That is what the whitelist is for - for apps that need to scrape arbitrary search terms for arbitrary users, X times an hour. Probably a bunch of Twitter analytics apps do this - the kind that you don't have to log in to view (they just happen to "have" your data somehow) - and the value they provide is a little dubious.

Apps that require authentication and therefore grab your data via authenticated calls won't be affected by this, you're bound by the limits of the authenticated user in that situation. And those limits are low, but well within the bounds of being useful (there's no practical reason you need to read/write thousands of times an hour as one particular user).

I would say the vast majority of apps that add value to the twitter ecosphere are authenticated apps. Apps like Cotweet, or analytics apps that provide deeper insights thanks to the greater access authenticated API calls have etc.

Re: Start Fund: Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer EVERY New Y Combinator Startup $150k

Jon Yongfook — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:22:51 -0000

"It’s the most investor friendly investment that I can think of" - I think you mean entrepreneur-friendly

Re: Twitter For Mac Is Like Massively Multiplayer IM — Will It Alter Twitter Itself?

Jon Yongfook — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:37:40 -0000

You might be interested in this then... a Massively Multiplayer Twitter Client: http://littlecosm.com

Re: Zynga To Acquire Flock, The Social Browser That You Never Used

Jon Yongfook — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:17:58 -0000

Zynga wants market share. That's why they use Facebook - it's the quickest route to market share.

Making users use a browser with zero market share to play their games is going in exactly the opposite direction.

Re: Entrepreneurs: why do you need VC anyway?

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:09:09 -0000

PCH seems like an unfortunate example for this article...

http://techcrunch.com/2008/...

They raised $21 million to scale up.

So it turns out that you do need VC?

Re: One Kings Lane May Have A Little Groupon In Them

Jon Yongfook — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:36:23 -0000

I wouldn't compare the two companies too closely. The operations of each are chalk and cheese.

Flash Sales sites have numerous logistical hurdles to overcome such as inventory management, product shootings, warehousing, shipping, returns etc. Doing this at scale (for example 2 new sales every day, each with 50 physical products) is difficult, hence the barrier to entry for this type of business is quite high.

Coupon sites have none of the above problems. You are selling a virtual piece of paper that offloads the bulk of logistical responsibility to the partner (customer buys the coupon on your site but the service is fulfilled by the partner). The challenge with Groupon-style sites is the ability to do lots of very attractive, mainstream deals (which usually means lower margins than Flash Sales). The lower barrier to entry means you also deal with more competition.

It's easy to draw a comparison since they both use the "time limit" factor to drum up demand, but that is just a sales mechanism. It's like saying Amazon is the same as the iTunes App Store because both have a "buy" button.

The reality is these business models are very different.

Disclosure: I'm a director of one of Japan's biggest Flash Sales sites - it's awesome fun, but it's damn hard work!

Re: Hunch+Tries+Local%26nbsp%3BRecommendations

Jon Yongfook — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:53:20 -0000

The hurdle here is getting people to understand and _trust_ that "5 people who (just like you) like the color purple, ALSO like these 3 restaurants nearby so we think you will probably like them too!" is better than simply "Here's 3 restaurants in your area that got killer reviews" a la Yelp.

It's a big hurdle because I'm not sure it's really any better than the current status quo. It's harder to understand and the results are not necessarily any more reliable. It's noble to try to improve how we do recommendations on the web, but I'm not sure this is a profitable vertical.

I have a hunch that Hunch will keep doing these pivots until it figures out which one will lead to a real revenue stream. Either that or it will "become the platform" and license out their algorithmic recommendations to other companies.

Re: The+Media+Attacks+On+Facebook+And+Mark+Zuckerberg+Are+Getting+Out+Of%26nbsp%3BHand

Jon Yongfook — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:57:42 -0000

I rarely comment on TC anymore but I just wanted to say that the pic for this article is *perfect*.

bravo :)

Re: Hitotoki Moment - Rough Guiding in Tokyo. - Tokyo, Japan

Jon Yongfook — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:37:02 -0000

there's a great bar in that building called Mood Board. Good food and 500-yen glasses of wine! http://r.gnavi.co.jp/e533321/